Need a Gift on the Go?

Mother’s Day is coming! If you are looking for a unique, beautiful gift for your mom, here’s a little tip: check out GemzNGold.com. This solid gold necklace with amethyst and peridot caught my eye. Isn’t is absolutely breathtaking?! Perfect for spring and perfect for a mom!

GemzNGold.com is one of the best jewelry wholesalers in the country– every piece is manufactured and designed in Los Angeles, California, and their quality and customer service is superb. GemzNGold.com has a 30-day satisfaction guarantee on top of a lifetime quality guarantee. And no sales tax on orders outside of California! The selection of fine jewelry is stunning; some pieces are so delicate, like intricate and colorful works of art. The prices are slashed (wholesale prices)– Mom would be pleased to not only get such a beautiful piece of jewelry, but know that you got a good deal, eh? Check out the website, prepare to be wowed.

GemzNGold.com is having a special, currently: all orders will receive a beautiful red velvet jewelry box, just in time to cushion a Mother’s day gift! Offer is good until May 11,2009.

Skip spending $50 on roses that will wilt in a week– check out GemzNGold.com for a beautiful and colorful piece that will last forever!

Best Time for Deals

The travel season is finally here! I really don’t think we’re going to get any more snow (hurray!), so I’m making my plans early this season. One of the first things on our preliminary travel list is getting some camping gear, and getting new clothing for the kids. This is the perfect time to grab deals on last autumn’s and winter’s apparel. This is the time of year that I usually buy up last season’s winter clothing and footwear, for next season. My kids have been growing like weeds, I tell ya! Sears is currently running a fabulous clearance sale, not to be missed. Hold on to your hats: the Sears clearance is offering 75-80% off all original prices on their fall and winter apparel.

Look at these jeans I found at the website. Original price is $31.99. Do you see the clearance price on these quality Levi jeans? $1.99! And that is not a typo!

The deals are phenomenal. It includes savings on women’s, women’s plus, kids’, infants’, men’s, outwear, workboots, and loads more. Excellent deals– and Sears is, of course, a store with a solid reputation for quality and for selling durable goods (I only get my large appliances and tools from Sears). Check out the clearance sale- it’s going on now until April 18th, which will be here before you know it!

Photo Hunters: Family

I love looking at old photos. The people in them have such interesting faces. I like to think about what life was like for them back then, before electricity, running water, and computers! I’m sure life was very hard– lots of labor as evidently etched on their faces– but they had their wonderfully simple joys, too. I have an old cake tin filled with 90-year old birthday cards, baby announcements, and invitations to dinner. Those old papers once belonged to my great-grandmother and she had labeled them to be burned after her death in 1967. But my grandmother wouldn’t burn them; she saved them, and I got them after her death. I’m glad she saved them. They are a tiny window to the past, enabling me to see and understand the simple pleasures and pains of time gone by.

I caught the genealogy bug from my late grandmother. I’ve managed to research one of my parents all the way back to the 600s, to a Norse king. It is so neat to discover your own family history! I found out that my family tree includes Half-Dan the Old (a Viking king); a king of Jerusalem in the 900s; William the Conqueror; Eleanor of Aquitaine; a few kings of England; a Mayflower passenger; a Lexington, Massachusetts, Revolutionary War hero; a Civil War hero; and numerous pioneers.

I have a small collection of photos, too. It is so neat to look at one’s ancestors and see their features on the faces of one’s children! It is amazing!

Here’s a very old photo, dating to around the Civil War:

I wish I knew who these people were– they are ancestors but the photo is unlabeled. But the older woman looks strinkingly like my late grandmother! The gentleman also resembles Silas Fyler, a pioneer of Central New York (when it was uninhabited by white men). His family had come here from Connecticut, descended from the famous Walter Fyler of Windsor, Connecticut.

Here’s another one dating from that era. That tall girl is my great-great grandmother. Her great-great-great(etc) grandfather, a young teacher names George Soule, stepped off the Mayflower in 1620.
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